I’ve worked my fair share of late night shifts. You get back to your car and slump yourself into the driver’s seat, but you’re so tired you can’t be fucked to turn the key in the ignition. Finally, you will yourself to do so as thoughts of your far more comfortable bed beat out the idea of passing out in the car. As you drive you switch on some tunes, none of that fun indie pop stuff, nor that angry post-hardcore stuff. As you drive down that empty road, the street lights each a beacon leading you home the murmuring voice of Tail fills your soul. The stress of the day washes off you as the feeling of haplessness becomes miniscule*.
Liam Gordon’s Tail displays the elation, intensity and loneliness of the heart on his brilliant new single Tell Love.
Or maybe that’s just how I feel when I listen to Tail’s new single Tell Love. Tail may seem like a fairly fresh addition to the Sydney music scene although the man behind the act Liam Gordon certainly isn’t. Young mister Gordon has been performing as Tail for the last three years now. If that name rings a bell chances are you’ve been listening to Liam’s other band Spookyland to which he lends his guitar. The similarities are there of course, but in the scope of things Tail is completely its own thing.
With all his experience it is expected that Gordon would know how to craft a quality song, and he certainly delivers with his latest single Tell Love. I’m willing to stake my reputation on this following statement; ever since there has been music the most dominating subject for any musician throughout the ages is love. There are songs about falling in love, meeting the love of your life, heartbreaks, usually done in big sweeping fashions. Sometimes it’s good and sometimes it’s just plain shit. What Gordon absolutely nails on Tell Love is love’s ability to be an overwhelming force but does so without making too much of a bloated spectacle about it.
The opening lines “My eyes were filled with your mind” sets the tone for what the song stands for. Gordon’s voice drones in typical shoegaze fashion, the gentle piano echoing from beneath his voice as the percussion creeps into the proceedings. Those drums really elevates the emotion within the track. Things continue to slowly build with the introduction of a soaring guitar, the song closing out with an intense fury before fading away to leave behind a sole echoing drum beat. “Tell love I’ll see her again” sticks with you long after the song ends.
Tell Love achieves a lot in its five minutes, the varying feelings surrounding love are well represented. It can be gentle and reassuring, it can be frantic and passionate, or it can be lonely. Well worth a listen.
*Ed. dude get some fucking rest.
FIND OUT MORE ON
